Shingle-gage.



No. 885,705. PATENT-ED APR. 21, 1908.

' A. A. UNRUH.

SHINGLB GAGE. APPLICATION FILED JULY 27, 1907.

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ALBERT A. UNRUH, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

SHINGLE-GAGE;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 21, 1908.

Gontinuationin part of application Serial No. 252,708, filed. March 29,1905. This application filed July 27, 1907.

" Serial No. 385,930.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT A. UNRUH, a citizen ofthe United States, anda resident of Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shin le-Gages, of whichthe following is a specii i ence being had to the accompanyingdrawingsas constituting a part thereof.

This invention relates to gage attachments for shingle hatchets, and hasfor its object to obtain simple means for that purpose, inexpensive tomanufacture, which may be applied to shingle hatchets of the standardmake, and the adjustment of Which is accomplished with facility.

To this end my invention consists in the combination with thehatchet-head of a slotted gagelate, secured by a headed pin or screw tot e head-end of the handle, and made with a series of cavities, spacedapart to represent measurements, and provided at its outer end withmeans arranged to hold the plate longitudinally movable on the outeredge of the hatchethead; a resilient locking bar, pivotally secured bysaid screw-head holding the gage-plate, and a stud on the outer end ofthe locking bar, adapted to be inserted in one of said series ofcavities, provided on the gage-plate, to lock the parts in position toindicate the desired measurement.

locking bar e, one on top of the other.

The details of the foregoing construction are illustrated in saiddrawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a shinglehatchet, with my invention aplied thereto; Fig. 2 is a top-end view of the same parts; Fig. 3 is aninverted plan view of the gageplate; and Fig. 4 is a front end view ofthe gage-plate.

Referring now to the letters as designating the parts described: a,.:t,represent the handle and head of a shingle-hatchet of the common type.dle a is inserted a headed-screw c, by which are pivotally secured agage-plate cl, and lt ple e gage-plate d is provided with a longitudinalslotf so that said plate may be longitudinally moved along the u peredge of the hatchet head, to bring the s oulders g, formed by thelateral portions i, against the lower edge of the lower course ofshingles, whereupon the striking-end p of the hatchet will constitute anabutment or shoulder against which to cation, refer In the head-end ofthe han-- place the lower edge of the next course of shingles.

The locking bar 6 is made of material sufficiently resilient to allowthe stud thereof to be sprung into and out of one of the perfora tionsor cavities 1 provided in the gage-plate. The perforations or cavities 1are spaced apart to represent units of a scale, in accordance with thedesired measurements, between the points or shoulders g and p. The partsare furthermore so arranged as to leave a little space an under thelocking bar e, when thelatter is engaged with the gageplate, so that bythe insertion of the point of a shingle-nail into said space m,thelocking bar e may be pried up and disengaged, to enable thelongitudinal adjustment of the gageplate (1 as required. To hold thegage-plate in position on the upper edge of the hatchet, the outer endthereof .is made with pendent lugs 01., a, and the sides are made withlongitudinal pendent ribs 0, 0, all properly spaced apart so as tostraddle the edge I) of the hatchet-head.

I claim:

1. A gage attachment for hatchets comprising a metal strip, and means atone end for securing it in place on the outer edge of a hatchet blade,said strip having side flanges bent laterally on lines longitudinal tothe strip adapted to embrace the sides of the hatchet and also havinggage shoulders.

2. A gage attachment for hatchets comprising a comparatively thin metalstrip, and means at one end for securing it to the end of a hatchethandle, said strip having side flanges bent laterally on lineslongitudinal to the strip adapted to embrace the sides of the hatchetand also having gage shoulders projecting laterally or outwardly fromthe planes of said flanges.

3. A gage attachment for hatchets comprising a comparatively thin metalstrip, and means at one end for securing it to the end of a hatchethandle, said strip having side flanges bent laterally on lineslongitudinal to the strip adapted to embrace the sides of the hatchetand also having gage shoulders projecting laterally or outwardly fromthe planes of said flanges, and locking means to prevent longitudinalmovement of the gage.

4. The combination with a shingle-hatchet head, of a longitudinallyslotted gage-plate made with lateral portions at its outer end,

Which lateral portions constitute shoulders,

of the latter, a pin inserted into the head-end of the handle, pivotallysecuring the gageplate and the locking-bar, one on top of the other; thelocking-bar being made of resilient material so as to be adapted tospring the stud thereof into and out of the cavities of the gage-plate,to lock and unlock the parts.

5. The combination With a shingle-hatchet head, of a longitudinallyslotted gage-plate made With lateral portions at its outer end, whichlateral portions constitute shoulders, said gage-plate being furthermade With a series of longitudinally alined cavities representing unitsof a scale, pendent lugs on said gage-plate arranged to hold the samelongi tudinally movable on the edge of the hatel1ethead, a locking-bar,a stud at the outer end of the latter, a pin inserted into the head-endof the handle, pivotally securing the gageplate and the locking-bar, oneon top of the .other the loeking-bar being made of resilient material soas to be adapted to spring the stud thereof into and out of the cavitiesof ALBERT A. UNltUll.

Witnesses:

T. J. GEISLER, CECIL Lose.

